Curriculum Overview

Creative

Music We will explore music through singing with our specialist music teacher. We will use songs and games to help us learn lots of different styles of music and a wide range of songs and tunes. We will continue to learn and use new Makaton signs.

Design Technology We will focus on cooking and nutrition this half term and how this can support healthy living. We will focus on learning skills such as peeling and cutting with scissors to prepare food.

Art We will explore the work of the British artist, Ted Harrison. We will use collage to create our own art works.

English

Repeating Stories - This half term we will be reading two stories, by different authors that are related to healthy living, in particular food. - 'Handa's Surprise' and 'Oliver's Vegetables'. We will become familiar with these stories and explore the settings. We will create our own stories by changing parts of the stories.

Instructions  - We will build on the work we did last half term using recipes, to learn what instructions are, how to use them and how to write them. We will write instructions to help people make a healthy snack.

Maths

Addition and Subtraction We will look at symbols and language relating to adding and subtracting and learn strategies to help us add and subtract numbers and objects.

Number: place value We will continue to explore and learn about number and place value including ordering numbers, ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd etc.) and the number line. This will also help us with adding and subtracting.

Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s We will explore counting in different patterns, mainly 2/5 and 10s and will learn about each of these times tables. We will use songs to help us and look for patterns to remember.

Mass and Volume In this unit we will be comparing, describing and solving problems for mass and volume. We will also begin to measure and record the weight and capacity of different objects.  

PSHE

Our whole school Jigsaw PSHE focus this half term is 'Healthy Me'. In Year 1 we will explore this through circle time, games, activities and videos. We will learn about healthy eating, exercise and healthy minds.

Understanding the World

Science We will continue to observe the changing seasons and visit 'Seven Stories' in Newcastle to take part in a 'Seasons' workshop. We will develop our scientific enquiry through questioning, exploring and presenting results. We will learn about our bodies, identifying, naming, drawing and labelling the basic parts of the human body and link to our senses.

Computing We will become 'Maze Explorers', using computers to create instructions to give directions.

RE We will continue to find out about what it means to be Jewish, exploring the lives of Jewish people and their special times and places.